Abraham Zapruder Recounts Filming JFK Assassination

The Zapruder Film and the Assassination

• 🎥 Abraham Zapruder, an unassuming dress manufacturer, captured the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on film.
• 🎯 Zapruder was at the right place at the right time with his Bill & Howell camera.
• 👂 He describes hearing the first shot, seeing the President lean over, and then the second shot, which caused the President's head to open up.
• 🗣️ He recalls yelling, "They killed him, they killed him!" while continuing to shoot.

Scrutiny and Unanswered Questions

• 🔍 The 26.6-second film has undergone thousands of hours of frame-by-frame scrutiny.
• 🏛️ It has been the centerpiece of every official investigation into the assassination.
• ❓ Zapruder states he did not hear a second gunman and believes a shot from the direction of the wooden fence (30-35 ft away) would have sounded different.

Zapruder's Legacy

• 💔 Zapruder described the event as a wound that heals but still leaves pain.
• 🕊️ He died in 1970, a quiet man who never expected to be immortalized by such a horrible moment.
• 🎤 Marvin Scott recounts the difficulty in interviewing Zapruder due to his extreme shyness, relying on charm to secure the interview.